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Additionality and baseline assessment |
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Perhaps both most the important and most elusive
concept in CDM is additionality. If a project cannot
illustrate additionality, it cannot qualify for CDM or
generate CER’s.
In its simplest form the concept merely
signifies something that would not have occurred or existed
otherwise. Put positively and in legal terms, additionality
can best (though tenuously) be described as the concept that
is used to establish whether there would be a causal link
between the issuance of CER’s to the proponent (ie creating an
additional revenue stream) and the achievement of the aims of
the CDM, namely emissions reductions and technology transfer.
Additionality is highly technical and will be
evaluated by specialists in any CDM project. A tool for the assessment of additionality is now available online at
http://cdm.unfccc.int/EB/Meetings/016/eb16repan1.pdf
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